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On the recordDecember 7, 2009
For over a quarter of water systems have violated the arsenic or radioactive standards, there is no record that they were ever contacted by a regulator.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse highlights regulatory failures in addressing water system violations.

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